Word: bushings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angolan rebels did when revolution broke out in that Portuguese colony in 1961. But from bases across the Ruvuma River in Tanzania, Mozambique's northern neighbor, African "freedom fighters" have spread across the country, attacking isolated tea and sisal plantations, ambushing search parties sent into the tropical bush country to surprise them, and always slipping away under the cover of darkness to reappear as peasant farmers in some remote village...
...TIME, usually accurate, is mousetrapped by a lady. Mrs. Reich did not appear from hiding behind a bush to confront me in Okinawa [Feb. 12]. Actually, she was given the VIP treatment by airfield personnel and ushered to meet me. How come? She told them that she was my wife...
Brute" and "The Beast"), when he visited the island, stepping out from behind a bush and introducing the third Reich, her six-year-old son David. "You are a good man," said beauty to the beast. "I was wondering if you could help me stay here." Er, um, muttered the hapless brute. Give him Montezuma any time...
Trouble with Hippos. Sugar consumption varies from the African bush-man's 3.7 Ibs. per year to the tea-and taffy-loving Briton's 116 Ibs., but it is rising everywhere, has now reached a worldwide record of 38 Ibs. annually per person. The Dutch set up a sugar industry for Ethiopia, where coffee was traditionally seasoned with salt and spices, and so converted the Ethiopians to sweetness that they have now become modest exporters of sugar. Turkey has also become an exporter, and so has Bolivia, which ran up a 22,000-ton surplus last year...
...thump of signal drums preceded Major Mike Hoare and his mercenary column as they pushed toward the village of Bafwasende. The message: 'Flee, the white giants are coming." But Hoare and his men cut through the bush to hit Bafwasende from the rear, gunned down some of the rebels before they could escape " including a Simba cap tain carrying written orders to exterminate all white hostages held there...